Lina Wertmuller Quotes

I am a huge fan of 'Batman'. As a kid watching it, there are certain things that I'm not going to latch onto as much as when I've gotten older.

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

I never read any of the comics, but I grew up on the animated series when I was a little kid - I guess it came out in 1992. So I've always been an 'X-Men' fan.

I watched the German version of 'Baron Munchasen' and Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' at a young age. 'Star Wars' was also a huge thing when I was a kid.

Movies were the biggest influence on me when I was a kid.

I really didn't grow up with a lot of Superman stuff.

I'll miss everything about Palermo. The people always made me feel at home; it will be impossible to forget my experiences there. Palermo made me become a man.

There was a manga boom, so I read 'Astro Boy,' 'Osomatsu-kun,' and such. But what influenced me the most were things like 'Popeye' and Disney animation.

As I kid I watched 'Star Trek' and 'Battlestar Galactica.'

At 20 years old, I was better at playing with toys than I was as a kid.

I started re-reading 'Harry Potter' just to throw myself back into my childhood. I forgot how awesome the books are.

I am part of this generation with 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and 'Peter Pan.' I think we all grew up in this culture of pirates.

I'm always pretty influenced by stuff from when we were younger.

It's crazy because, you know, my parents always want me to watch old films to make me realize how amazing some of the older actors are. And I was obsessed as soon as I watched 'Stand by Me.'

I remember when I was reading 'The Bear,' I was reading as a kid. All these years later, one returns to that for an entirely different reason.

My mom always had me and my brother watching old Fred Astaire movies.

I loved everything about being ten, eleven, and twelve years old, and seem to make most of my heroines and heroes that age so I can reexperience all those pitfalls and wonderful discoveries. It helps me to figure out my own life when I write from that eleven year old place!

As a kid, you don't know what's going on at the time. But once you get older, you start to realize it.

My parents were big movie-musical fans. And I thought 'Grease' was different from the usual MGM musical. I was intrigued and fell in love with it.

There's always those few people that are like, 'Why don't you play any of the material off your first two records?' And I'm like, 'For the same reason that I don't play with G.I. Joe dolls anymore.' It's like, 'I'm a grown-up.' I wrote that music when I was a kid.

I would love for musicals to come back on the screen.

I grew up with games. It changed my life. It changed my social relationships with my friends. It defined my childhood. It's something I really cherished.

'Peanuts' is a life-long influence, going back to before I could even read.

It's so crazy to meet people you've known about since you were many feet shorter than you are now.

Some people have such strong memories of me as a young actor, that it's hard to see me as anything else.